Pierre Jolivet: "Canal + and Orange should be brought together"

One week before the committee's review of the audiovisual law, the world of cinema is mobilized. Pierre Jolivet, president of the Civil Society of Author-Producer-Producers (ARP), educates parliamentarians on the necessary defense of the cultural exception, at a time when the sector has to face the arrival of large digital platforms. Pierre Jolivet believes that "this text should not be reduced to a technical transposition of the European AVMS directive, but should be an opportunity to reaffirm a real ambitious cultural policy" . This famous cultural exception was defended against free trade agreements the first time in 1994 - in full cohabitation between François Mitterrand and Édouard Balladur - and a second time, by François Hollande, twenty years later. "We must defend the Soft Power of France," exclaims Pierre Jolivet.

"I just saw the movie Parasite with my daughter and I explained to her that, if this feature by Bong Joon-ho is

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